Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 16, 2012

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    Tony   over 11 years ago

    Actually it’s the Higgs field, theorized to exist at every point throughout the universe, which gives particles mass in proportion to their interaction with that field. The Higgs boson is simply the smallest quantum of excitation of that field.

    Finding the boson proves the existence of the field though, so as Arlo so aptly put it, it’s a Big Deal.

    Janis is just pulling his leg, though. Pretty funny, Mrs. Day!

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    Orion-13  over 11 years ago

    I want to know if there’s an Anti-Higgs…

    Orion

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    Varnes  over 11 years ago

    Is there a bosun’s mate?

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    Varnes  over 11 years ago

    How many slices of cake are the/re on a sail boat

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    teenahum  over 11 years ago

    @chireefHIlarious! I am still laughing!!

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    cabalonrye  over 11 years ago

    Oh. I thought it was written bosom when one spoke of chocolate cake

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    Olddog1  over 11 years ago

    chireef: Good catch.

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    jim.bullard  over 11 years ago

    Hmm? A Higgs-Bosun diet in the offing? Forget counting calories or carbs.

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    Dr_Fogg  over 11 years ago

    Wow! That explains how and why the improbability drive works.

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    finale  over 11 years ago

    Does it really matter?

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    prrdh  over 11 years ago

    Arlo, it’s the same as the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin. One of the aleph numbers, I forget which.

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    Sidneypop  over 11 years ago

    Nicola Tesla preferred the ether theory over the electron theory. Maybe both are right.

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    Varnes  over 11 years ago

    Best way to illustrate particle wave theory is to use a garden hose. Turn it on and wave it back and forth. It looks like you’re making the stream wavy, but all the water drops are going in a straight line….particle waves….

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    hippogriff  over 11 years ago

    Varnes: I tried it and they definitely described parabola, as gravity intervened. I tried to replicate, but the wind came up in gusts, and the “straight” line got so confused it was almost random.

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    Jkiss  over 11 years ago

    finale and whmIII to understand the universe is to understand ourselves. Without knowledge, we go nowhere.

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 11 years ago

    “[W]ith all that education and ‘California Wages’ floating around, they’re still living in a cheapass walk-up apartment???”

    Along with ‘California Wages’, you get ‘California Rent.’

    Besides, Sheldon’s the only one with “Faculty Superstar” status, and do you REALLY think he’d move now that he can (presumably) afford to? It’d mean abandoning his spot.

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    FireMedic  over 11 years ago

    Was Higgs Bosun James Bond before or after George Lazenby?

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    Logicman  over 11 years ago

    People who are curious and want to know how things work. If you don’t go watch a football game and leave the rest of us alone…. (not that intelligent folk don’t occasionally enjoy watching a game too, but you get my drift.)

    The joke, btw was cute …. chocolate cake…. :)

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    Linda Solomon  over 11 years ago

    you would have to ask Ima’s buffalo….True factoid: Ima Hogg was a governor of Texas, who took on the position when her hubby died…

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    mdblanche  over 11 years ago

    In the 19th century the physicist Michael Faraday demonstrated to the man in charge of the British government’s budget that moving a magnet through a coil of wire generated an electric current in the wire. When his guest asked him what value this discovery could have, Faraday responded “in twenty years time, you will be taxing it.” It was Faraday’s discovery that led to the invention of the electric generator.

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Yeah! Its a wavy particle… or, uh, um, er, its a particalized wave, or, uh, um, ah, its ah, um er…

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    By George, I think you’ve got it!

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member over 11 years ago

    or a parvy waticle, or a parwa vyticle, or, uh, er oh, heck!

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    hippogriff  over 11 years ago

    Linda Dean: You blew that one. Ima was the daughter of Gov. Jim Hogg and financial supporter of most of culture in Houston. Texas has had two women governors: Marian (Ma) Ferguson and Ann Richards, neither of whom were Ima Hogg, who never married and therefore could never be widowed.

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